A large-format horizontal watercolor nude — the most dramatically painterly in the series, with a bold pink wash at the upper left suggesting a sky or color field, a yellow-green wash to the right, and the figure drawn in thick black ink over a grey wash. The figure is reclining, the face visible in right profile at the upper right, the hair described with bold black strokes. The breast is described with the same bold ink circle-and-dot as the figure drawings. The composition is cropped so that the reclining figure fills the wide format from left to right.
The pink sky zone — a free wash in the upper left corner — gives this work a quality of landscape as much as figure study: the figure in an environment that has weather, atmosphere, and color. The pink reads as a sunset or dawn, the yellow-green as grass or field, the figure as a person in a natural setting. This atmospheric reading transforms the figure study into something more like a plein-air work — the body as part of an outdoor world.
The bold black ink lines applied over the grey-wash figure are the most expressionistic mark-making in the large-format series — where most large works use either careful pencil or measured ink, here the ink strokes are gestural and immediate, the line sometimes doubling back on itself. The large format (33.5 by 25 in the horizontal orientation) gives these gestural marks room to breathe, the figure's energy amplified by the scale.